Thank you everyone for dropping by and keeping the words rolling on.

wonder if I will be foggy tomorrow morning?

Hey Sweet Snag, ginseng – I’ll try that! Thanks. Green tea, cranberry juice. Hmmn, maybe my coffee has me so addicted I am blinded by it. Whoa, do you have Worker’s Comp? I sure hope so, for your toes’ sake.

Sweet Thomma Lynn: You sound a lot like me. Glad to hear of another morning coffee person. I recently re-found my small coffee maker and feel I’m in heaven, as before I was boiling water and going through the whole rigmarole of dripping it through my drip thingy, usually with a lot of mess. I like the machine best!

But I think my foggy-mountain-wake-up is def due to both allergies n age-. I drink cranberry juice first thing. Jolts the brain awake. Some folks start off with green tea. Still, however, I know I need two full hours of awake to be alert enough at work (or I get tons of broken everything)!

Anyway…

Miss Betsy: I think I’m going to have real troubles as an empty nester. When Kelly’s at one of her friends’ houses on a sleep-over, I feel ‘way kind of depressed. Is that normal?

Dot: All those suck. I think allergies may be a big part of it for me, especially living with drywall dust. All that gypsum weighing my bloodstream down?

Mike: Maybe I should get my sneakers on and go walking immediately after waking, that might clear my head nicely. But I might need a coffee en route. Get one of those head drinking contraptions with straws on either side, the kind usually reserved for beer swilling. Oh – there’s an idea – beer swilling at 7:00 a.m. Hey, worth a try. Experiment until I find what works to clear my head.

Chiana Girl: Hey, and that goes right along with the early walking plan. Might be worth a try, thanks. I do likes me some nature and stuff.

J.D. So I’m not the only one! I’d love to do the dishes in the morning, which I consider pretty mindless but the clanking around really upsets Jim, as he gets up later than I, usually. So I do them once a week, Saturday night. And you know we’re taller in the morning, right?

Turf Dad: Cool name, btw. Do you ever go to sea, to be Surf N Turf Dad? (groan.) Hmmn, could it be genes. Or jeans? Maybe I should sleep in p.j.s instead of jeans!! And take the motorcycle helmet off at night.

Vered: I’m beginning to sense that I may not be as abnormal as I’d feared. But I used to just jump right out of bed and grab the world by the butt. I want to do that again!!

Mark: That could very much be it. Or maybe I could benefit from an afternoon nap. Gee, my life on this earthly plane is about 43% over now. How can I really make the remaining 47% kick total butt?

Mama Z: Never? Never – ever? I’m feeling ‘way better about myself now, especially since you’re like, 10 years younger than I? I don’t even know how “old” you are. or 29, I’d say.

Dear Sara: Hi. Begging forgiveness at not being over to your blog lately. Promise I’ll get over soon. So glad to hear my CD reached you and that you like it. yay! What’s up with your sister? Does she take vitamins or elixers, or anything?

Ulla: One more vote for me not being ‘way outside the norm! Ah, tea. I used to drink a lot of orange Pekoe in my Home And Native Land. With a bit of milk. Maybe I can start drinking it again. Wonder if they still make Red Rose? And I wonder if they still put prizes in the box!?! And where in the world are you, anyway?

Jannie: Funny meeting you here.

Lance: I AM TOTALLY GOING TO TRY THAT!!! Thank you.

Tess: Guru-Woman, you can boss me around all you want to! Okay, you guys are sooo helping me, or at least giving me things to try. And I thought this was like, The Stupidest Post I’d Ever Written (of course, I pretty-much feel like that about every post I write.)

Paige: Are you and I tied for Internet Nuts, or what?? Even if I never ever got rid of foggy morning head, I could put up with it, as I know you were put on this earth to make me smile. Okay, okay, I won’t be selfish and try to hog you all to myself. You can make other people smile too, as you do.

Talon: Get out! You are a sleep-walker? To this day? Wow, what’s that like? And stretching and easing, that is ONE COOL IDEA. (Well, 2 cools ideas, I guess to be technically correct?) Thank you, my dear dear lady. I am for sure going to try that. A stretch and an ease, and a cold shower followed immediately by a walk around the hood with my coffee beer-swilling hat — geez, I think if that works I may just live to be 125! Oh, and something just occured to me – the William Tell Overature at volume 7 — when Kelly was in pre-school I used to wake her up to that and she LOVED it. That could help too.

Hey Kathy: Hormones! S%@t. Never thought of that. Can I get drugs for that? hmmn, in my immediate fam we tend to hit the change late, like 50. But oh joy and oh bliss, if all the above don’t work, I could consult my good old witch doctor. Thanks! And hey, you’re just a year older than I? Cool, my contemporary. Cool!

Okay, that’s it for now.

I’ll most likely be back at this post again before 2011.

If it’s allergies, then you’ll know it quickly if you follow the “get outside” advice. If you get outside, take a morning walk and come back in feeling WORSE, you’ll know it’s allergies at work.

I hate to bring this up – but if this is a “recent” phenomenon – it might be – GULP – hormonal.

I was talking with a friend the other day who is in her mid-50′s who shared that she went through the change when she was my age (46). I just assumed EVERYONE waited until their mid-50′s to stop having Aunt Flo come to visit since that’s when my mother stopped having Flo over.

Our bodies are truly fearfully and wonderfully made. If all else fails – drink more coffee!!!